Alejandro Walter

Baer Mieses

I obtained my Ph.D in Sociology (Universidad Complutense Madrid, 2003) and my research interests lie in the interdisciplinary fields of Memory Studies, Genocide Studies, and contemporary Jewish Studies.

My research and publication projects have addressed witness testimony, theories and methodologies of collective memory, antisemitism, and the discourses and practices of transitional justice, commemoration, and reparation to victims in different contexts. I have worked on the reception of the Holocaust in Spain, the Spanish historical memory movement, and memory activism initiated by victims of state terror in the Southern Cone. More recently I have conducted research on the debates around recognition and reparation of genocides perpetrated against Indigenous populations in the American Midwest, specifically in the domain of educational policy and practice.

My current book project deals with anti/philo-semitism in the XXI century.

Before being hired at CSIC in 2023, I was a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota (2012-2022). Before that I held faculty positions at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2004-2009), the University of Bayreuth (2009-2011), and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2011-2012). I am the assistant editor of Disparidades. Revista de Antropología (CSIC) and I serve on the Spanish Delegation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).